CAP.cutline_standalone:Jason Vitale, right, his son, Jason Vitale Jr., and Dawn McGee walk Sunday through the rain in Gardiner during a shopping trip.

CAP.cutline_standalone:Fern Stearns weeds a row of beets in her garden in Hallowell on Monday. The 81-year-old grew up on a farm in Mexico and recently relocated to Hallowell. “The community garden was a big attraction to move to here,” she said of the public plot.

Cole Arbour, 4, helps his grandmother, Jeanne Rocque pick berries Monday at Stevenson’s Strawberries in Wayne. Crowds of pickers swarmed the fields that opened to the public on Monday to harvest the first Maine fruit of summer. Arbour and Rocque drove out from Augusta with Arbour’s brother, Aiden Paradis, 9.

Richmond catcher Sydney Tilton, left, tags out Stearns baserunner Fredericka Hibbs at the plate to end the first inning of the class D state championship Saturday at St. Joseph’s College.

Richmond head coach Rick Coughlin celebrates Saturday at St. Joseph’s College as his Bobcats won their third straight Class D state championship.

Standing on an enclosed porch, Augusta officer Chris Guay talks on the radio as crisis worker Todd Stevens talks on the phone after no one answered the door on Friday during a welfare check on a person in an Augusta apartment.

The Rev. Tony Balcer sprinkles water onto passing motorcyclists as they start a ride Saturday during the Blessing of the Bikes event, which was part of the Greater Gardiner River Festival.

Alyssa Clark, 11, practices her diving Thursday from the dock on Messalonskee Stream on North Street in Waterville.

Rescue workers with Waterville fire department and Delta Ambulance treat a man who fell from a ladder while working in a manhole at Colby College in Waterville on Tuesday.

Summer has arrived and so have hundreds of kids who flocked to the Alfond Municipal Pool in Waterville on a hot Monday as a smiling Malakhi Hopkins blasts out of one of the water slides.